Wuthering Heights (1970)

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  • Short title: Wuthering Heights
  • NetFlix Rating: 2.9/5
  • Runtime: 104 minutes.
  • MPAA Content Rating: G
  • Release Year: 1970
  • Production: 20th Century Fox, Fox Home Entertainment
  • Genre: Classics, Classic Dramas, Romance Classics, Romantic Dramas, Dramas Based on the Book, Dramas Based on Classic Literature, United Kingdom, Foreign Countries, Foreign Regions

Plot summary

Timothy Dalton and Anna Calder-Marshall head the cast as the ill-fated young lovers, stable boy Heathcliff and the cultured Cathy, in this engrossing 1970 adaptation of Emily Brönte's immortal novel. While growing up together on the Yorkshire moors, Heathcliff and Cathy fall in love, but she breaks his heart -- and sparks his fury -- when she agrees to wed rich neighbor Edgar Linton (Ian Ogilvy). Julian Glover and Hugh Griffith also star.

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  • ASIN: B00000F356
  • Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
  • Audience rating: G (General Audience)
  • Binding: DVD
  • DVD Type: Layers ( sides)
  • DVD Region: 1
  • Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
  • Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
  • Release date: 2007-07-24

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Haunting, passionate and unforgettable, this lovely, scenically rich (Newsweek) version of Emily Brontë's timeless masterpiece stars Emmy winner Anna Calder-Marshall and Timothy Dalton (Licence to Kill) as Cathy and Heathcliff, two star-crossed lovers destined for doomed romance. 'realistic [and] with authentic locations and atmosphere (Leonard Maltin), Wuthering Heights is a riveting, heartbreaking and beautifully realized telling of a classic. Inside the dark and austere farmhouse of Wuthering Heights, the impetuous Cathy first meets Heathcliff an orphan her father rescued from the streets of London. As the two grow up, they spend endless days exploring the sprawling moors of Yorkshire, eventually discovering in each other a fiery, powerful love. But when Cathy is introduced to their wealthy neighbors and promised to marry their son, her social equal a fury is ignited within Heathcliff that can only be extinguished by one thing revenge!

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